[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore's hair, Lupin's first class

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No: HPFGUIDX 31238

In a message dated 11/14/2001 4:11:26 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
rowena_grunnion_ffitch at yahoo.com writes:


> > When Harry goes into Tom Riddle's diary, he sees
> > Dumbledore, who talks to Tom. At first, Harry
> > doesn't
> > recognise him, since he looks much younger and has
> > auburn
> > hair. However: Dumbledore is, at the time the books
> > happen,
> > 150 years old. 50 years earlier, when Tom Riddle
> > attended
> > Hogwarts, he was 100 years old. Wouldn't he have
> > white, or
> > at list grey hair, at 100?
> 
>    Not necessarily, especially as at 150 he's only
> begining to look really old. I wonder how long Wizards
> live? A thought; Dumbledore's battle with that earlier
> Dark Wizard (Grindel-something?) took place in 1945
> maybe that's what turned his hair white.
> 
> 

I thought the very same thing when I read COS!

Harriet


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